http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/06/16/interview_questions/ All about the issues that arise when workforce issues converge with business management. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/06/16/interview_questions/#comment-32370 Bob Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:00:03 +0000 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/06/16/interview_questions/#comment-32370 When interviewing for a job position at a very very well known software company, I was handed an actual toy 8 Ball (the black ball that you shake, and get random questions to your answers). I was asked how I would test this 8 Ball if I had to. Yes, a pretentious, and utterly ridiculous question - unrelated in any way to the job position. But since one of the earlier interviewers pointed out that all items that I would be testing would have a set of instructions included with them on how to test them, I replied: "First, I would go by the attached documented test instructions, if there were any...". (I think that pissed him off.) But the same interviewer actually started texting to someone on his cell phone, and later in the interview he let me know that the Boss couldn't make it, and that the interview was over. They also informed me that they just interviewed someone else from the company I was still employed at. Is that even legal? Summary: You better mesh well with the Boss's pet or you will have no way of getting the job. When interviewing for a job position at a very very well known software company, I was handed an actual toy 8 Ball (the black ball that you shake, and get random questions to your answers). I was asked how I would test this 8 Ball if I had to.
Yes, a pretentious, and utterly ridiculous question - unrelated in any way to the job position. But since one of the earlier interviewers pointed out that all items that I would be testing would have a set of instructions included with them on how to test them, I replied: “First, I would go by the attached documented test instructions, if there were any…”. (I think that pissed him off.)
But the same interviewer actually started texting to someone on his cell phone, and later in the interview he let me know that the Boss couldn’t make it, and that the interview was over.
They also informed me that they just interviewed someone else from the company I was still employed at. Is that even legal?
Summary: You better mesh well with the Boss’s pet or you will have no way of getting the job.

]]> http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/06/16/interview_questions/#comment-24293 Ask a Manager Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:38:25 +0000 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/06/16/interview_questions/#comment-24293 I'm not a fan of those questions AT ALL, but I believe the people who use them argue that it gives them insight into a candidate's creativity and ability to think on their feet. Personally, I want nothing to do with those questions and if a company asked me those things, I think I'd lose interest in working with them. I’m not a fan of those questions AT ALL, but I believe the people who use them argue that it gives them insight into a candidate’s creativity and ability to think on their feet. Personally, I want nothing to do with those questions and if a company asked me those things, I think I’d lose interest in working with them.

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